2nd Battalion of French Napoleonics Finished.

For 'Black Powder' here's two battalions of 18 French Line Infantry in mixed attack column.

A Grand Day Out.

We had a grand day out at Hartlepool yesterday. here's me and John at the wheel of the Trincomalee.

The stern, a fine ship indeed.

This small cannon shot a piece of rope into the harbour and made a hell of a bang for such a small gun, God knows what a big cannon would sound like.

The Trincomalee was a Royal Navy frigate built in Bombay in 1817.

Back home... sunburned, splitting headache and in a foul mood. A face that could curdle milk!.

But still a grand day out.

Victrix Napoleonics.

Here are some dodgy shots of my first French unit for Black Powder.

After much thought I plumped for a standard unit size of 18 figures on 6 stands giving a 1:40 figure ratio.

I really enjoyed painting these 28mm, it made a nice change from all those 1/72nd scale figures that I painted in the last year (640 of the little blighters).

The flash makes the blue appear lighter than it really is.

I also enjoyed building the Victrix models they are excellent IMO. I did manage to break a bayonet during painting and I do wonder how well they'll fare when the dice start flying around them.

Modern Air Wargaming.

An Iraqi MiG-21

Soviet Russian MiG-21s.

MiG-29.

Break !, an American F-15 Eagle gets behind some Russian Su-27s.

Iranian F-14 Tomcats.

Su-27s escort an airliner.

MiG-21s again.

I like the bare metal era.

Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat.

I use Airwar C21 by Wessex Games and Tumbling Dice 1/600th models with decals by Doms Decals.

Great stuff.

Wild West pics. An ordinary day in Jackson Springs.

"Here's the new filly I promised you, my dear".

"See how fine she is and she likes you already".

Jack has trouble paying his bill. Meanwhile....

The Logan gang meet up with Marshall Law and his posse.

The Grand Hotel's residents look on.

As does a newcomer in town. He looks a little familiar....

The Logan gang are notorious in these parts.

Oblivious, Jack is still arguing with old Lacey.

The Marshall's men mean business.

Logan, in the duster, is the veteran of many a gunbattle though.

These are some staged shots of some of my Legends of the Old West collection, I must get a game in some time soon.

Buildings : Hovels

Figures : Old Glory, Foundry , Dixon and Hinchcliffe (I've had some of these a long time).

Hordes of the things - Barbarians attack the Empire

The largely mercenary Empire army.

The barbarian invaders.

The Empire stronghold.

The barbarians are mainly GW Marauders.

The Empire Hero General.

The barbarians have a Hero too !.

GW Empire knights and Dogs of War.

Tilean pikes and crossbows.

The Empire magician.

The barbarians Behemoth is a rubber kids toy, still slightly sticky years after painting and varnishing.

Conan and his girl, Asgard and Barry Minot miniatures from decades ago.

I fancied a try out of HotT and blu-tacked some of my collection to some temporary card bases.

A good game , I enjoyed it a lot and look forward to using some other armies.